A federal judge on Thursday blocked Florida’s law that banned college and university professors from teaching elements of critical race theory, such as that one race is more privileged, superior or oppressive than another.
The law was originally coined the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) Act but was renamed the “Individual Freedom Act” when it was passed by state lawmakers earlier this year.
But U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said it is not freedom to “muzzle” professors.
“The State of Florida lays the cornerstone of its own Ministry of Truth under the guise of the Individual Freedom Act, declaring which viewpoints shall be orthodox and which shall be verboten in its university classrooms,” he wrote.